I have just returned from the 11th Annual Intracoastal Waterway Association Conference in Portsmouth, VA, which was held on November 18th and 19th. I found the conference to be very educational and informative. The AIWA has long been considered the voi…
Our Greenhorn is back
Our first two nights in Mobile bay were a bit rocky. Pulling into Eastern Shores Marina in the town of Fairhope, Alabama Anna and I expected to find this beautiful oasis where we could lick our wounds from the river system and recharge the batter…
STILL…. waiting on Oscar
Yep, that’s right. Still no baby. Just like the women in our family, Oscar has his/her own schedule. Speaking of babies. We received an e-mail from Donnie & Marilyn (M/V Kasey’s Choice) the other day along with a few attached photos of Tourist (our…
Pensacola Florida
November 20-21, 2010 Pensacola Florida. We left Orange Beach Alabama and headed to Pensacola Florida. I have included a few pictures of the trip, if you look hard one of the pictures shows a boat partially sunk, not sure of the circumstances. We tied u…
St Lucie River
After leaving Daytona beach, we made it to Cocoa Beach, anchored, what a wonderful sound that new baby makes, and no straining of my back pulling that f…king 45 lb CQR from the bottom of the mud, and over the bow roller, do you know how tought that i…
Dan Stabbert, 12-22 November 2010
Our time aboard Starr has been just fantastic. It has been a blending of intimate family time, new experiences, and old stories with a cultural voyage into the hearts and minds of the Japanese people and their rich cultural heritage. Sharry…
#30 Full Moon
I can’t remember the last time I actually looked forward to full moon. Come to think of it, it’s been awhile since I’ve thought much about weather at all. But here, life revolves around it. The nights are long with the sun going down …
Tenn-Tom Waterway
Tennessee River to Mobile AlabamaThe trip down the Ten-Tom is a trip into the past. After leaving the Tennessee River at Yellow Creek (near Iuka, MS and Counce, TN) the waterway enters the Divide Cut. This is the 29 Mile cut channel connecting the Tenn…
What’s an Apalachicola?
November 19, 2010The Gulf Intercoastal WaterWay (GIWW) is the safest way to travel through the Gulf of Mexico. It is a protected waterway broken by wide sounds and bays (some islands of the Gulf Island National Seashore are between the mainland a…
Time Out in Beaufort, SC
Beaufort (pronounced Bue –fert) rhymes with ‘beautiful’ as one local corrected us…is just that…beautiful. We spent a month at Port Royal Landing Marina during the summer of 2005 and thoroughly enjoyed the ‘low country’. Every …
